Cheers. Having the MX-5 there made a nice change, as I find silver cars are just boring after a while for taking photos of.

Acerjak - I'm using a Canon EOS 1d and today I was using a 50mm prime lens (F1.4) and a 70-200 (f2.8) although I think all of the shots above were on the 50mm apart from number 3. And number 2 was flashed.

Did a few shots on the new lens, kinda portrait type stuff which i'm a bit new to, then had a good play in Photoshop, something a bit different (go easy on the model!). I've also applied the same idea to a couple of other shots (the old S3).

Thanks Tom. I don't disagree with that actually, they do look over-edited...but thats the idea I think! Alhtough i've not perfected it really, the reds looks a bit too over cooked for a start.

There seems to me to be an increasing trend towards the post processing aspect of photographic art these days and so I thought i'd try and improve on that area of the process too and understand the skills. I don't think it compensates for poor photogrpahy (some try) and it's not to everybody's taste, but I think the results can be interesting and produce good pieces of art.

Take a look at the likes of Laurent Nivalle, I love his work at the moment he's a prime example of this kind of stuff, but he gets slated a lot for over processing - doesnt stop him being one of the most susccesful car photographers/CGI artists of the moment though.

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